Rail fastening



Patented Sept. 14, 1926.

PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN MORTKA, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

RAIL FAsTENING.

Application filed April 12, 1926. Serial No. 101,384.

This invention relates to improvements in railroad ties, particularly metal ties, and 1t is the principal object of the invention to provide a tie equipped with stationary means 6 for engaging the rail foot and with adjustable shoes for engagement with the inner rail foot flanges, thus allowing an adjustment of the rail fastening means.

Another object of the invention is the provision of a rail fastening for rail-road ties of simple and inexpensive construction provided with means for guiding the adjustable shoes.

A furtherobject of the invention is the provision of a railroad-tie equipped with a rail fastening means including a turnbuckle arrangement adapted to operate the adjustable sliding shoes.

A still further object of the invention is the provision of a rail fastening means for railroad ties, preferably metal ties, the shoes of which are provided with tie engaging members for securely guiding the shoes on the ties.

These and other objects and advantages of the invention will become more fully known as the description thereof proceeds, and will then be specifically defined in the appended claim.

1n the accompanying drawing, forming a material part of this disclosure:

Fig. 1 is a side elevation of a tie constructed according to my invention in longitudinal, vertical section on line 11 of Figure 2.

Fig. 2 is a top plan view thereof.

Fig. 3 is a cross'section on line- Figure 1.

Fig. 4 is a cross-section on line 4-4 of Figure 1.

The tie as illustrated on the drawing, consists of a base of any suitable material, preferably metal, having at its ends the rail chairs 11 and 12 integrally made therewith, formed with rail foot flange engaging lips or tongues 13 and 14f overlapping the outer foot flanges 15 of the rails 16.

The inner foot flanges of the rails are engaged by a pair of sliding members or shoes, generally designated 17. Each of said shoes comprises an upper, outwardly directed flange or member 18 spaced from the body of the shoe and adapted to grip over the inner rail foot flange. I An inwardly extending element or body 19 cut away on both sides has lateral depending flanges 20, 21, ]adapted to engage the side faces of the tie O.

The body 19 has a central bore 22, preferably threaded and adapted to be engaged by or to receive the screw end of a rod 23 forming part of a turn-buckle arrangement 24: provided with a plurality of non-aligned holes 25 in its body member for the reception of cotter pins 26 or the like, adapted to engage suitable depressions or recesses 27 in the tie for locking the turn-buckle arrangement in its adjusted position.

In the construction illustrated in Figure 1, the depending flanges 28 of the shoes have inner flanges 29 or the like, which engage in suitable grooves in the side faces of the tie.

It will be understood that the turn-buckle arrangement allows an adjustment of the sliding shoes according to tear and wear and a ready exchange of worn rails, and that such changes may be made in the construction of my device as come within the scope of the appended claim without departure from the spirit of the invention.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

In a rail fastening for railroad ties of the necting element for said rods having a plurality of non-aligned perforations and cot-' ter pins adapted to be passed through said element perforations into engagement with the body of the tie for locking said parts in their adjusted positions.

Signed at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York this fifteenth day of MarchA. D. 1926.

JOHN MORTKA. 

